53141From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy, 31 January 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Pierpont Morgan Library I received your obliging Favour of Nov. 15. I presented your Compliments to Sir John Pringle, who was glad with me to hear of your Welfare, and desired me to offer his best Respects whenever I wrote to you. The Farmers Letters were written by one Mr. Dickinson of Philadelphia, and not by me as you seem to suppose. I only caus’d them to be reprinted here with that...
531426 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Drank Tea at home with Crawford. Spent the Evening at home with Mr. Maccarty and Capt. Doolittle. A great deal of Thunder and Lightning. Ephraim Doolittle, on whom JA has much more to say in his Autobiography.
53143To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 30 March 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I believe I mentioned in my last, that I was going to sketch a state of facts relative to Mr. Pinckney’s mission for publication. I now inclose it. That the facts should be known to our citizens was deemed important. I thought it highly important that the Representatives should come together impressed with the sentiments of their constituents on the reprehensible conduct of the French...
53144To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
At length Longchamp is at an end. The company have just left me and I retire from the bustle of the procession to the calmer pleasure of writing to you. My apprehensions as to convenances between some of the ladies were without ground. Mde. de Corny and the Marchioness de Chambaraud were previously acquainted. At least they had a great deal of conversation and talked of having met at some...
53145The Committee of Secret Correspondence to the American Commissioners to France, 24 October 1776 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society; letterbook copies: Library of Congress; National Archives The Congress having Committed to our Charge and Management their Ship of War called the Reprisal, Commanded by Lambert Wickes Esqr. carrying sixteen Six pounders and about one hundred and twenty Men, We have allotted her to carry Doctor Franklin to France and directed Capt. Wickes to proceed for the...
53146From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 26 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to sollicit the attention of Congress to a matter, which very materially affects Colo. Bland, late commanding Officer at Charlotteville in Virginia. I am informed that this Gentleman, while in command, drew, from the Commissary, necessaries for his Table, upon a supposition that an allowance of that nature would be made, in consideration of his being obliged to live in a...
53147[Diary entry: 16 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
16. Clear, with but little [wind] & that Inclining to the Southward. Weather moderating.
53148To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 1 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
[ Fishkill, N.Y., 1 March 1781 ]. In a long “Memorial” petition, Hazen details his services and those of the 2d Canadian Regiment from the start of the war as prelude to asking for delinquent pay and an answer as to why so few soldiers have been incorporated into the regiment as called for by the congressional “Resolution of the 3rd of October last.” Hazen also questions why he has not been...
53149Bill for Suspending Executions for Debts, [6 December 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas by the expiration of the act for the regulating and collecting certain officers fees, and by the troubles which have since subsisted in this country the administration of justice hath been in a great measure suspended; and altho’ it is thought proper to revive and establish the courts of justice for the purpose of securing and preserving internal peace and good order, of determining...
53150To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Native American", 10 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Situation of our Country is such as ought to alarm Every Native American for the Honor an National Character which we ought to hold in the Scale of Nations and Rouse The Spirit of Independance to assert our National Rights— as the Combination of Foreign Powers against our Commerce Can only be Obviated by a desided and Manly Conduct let me Recommend to your consideration Certain Regulations...